A blog by the Delaware Historical Society

Remembering The First World War

Both German and English navies claim victory against each other in a naval battle in the North Sea at this time 100 years ago. Numerous stories from the Sunday Star newspaper in mid August, 1917 and Delaware soldiers John Pryce Eckles, Winfield Scott Byron, and Joseph C. Dougherty, and physician Abram Halprin are highlighted in today’s post.

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The Delaware Historical Society owns and operates the Delaware History Museum, a nationally recognized Research Library, Old Town Hall, several historic houses and a picturesque urban courtyard on its downtown campus, as well as the Read House and Gardens in Historic New Castle.